Revolution opens signups for its mobile MMO outside of Asia
Netmarble announced today that it is opening what it’s calling “preregistration” (though this is just signing up) for its mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game...
Royal Blood: How Gamevil is betting big on a mobile MMO
Few projects are as ambitious as Royal Blood, a massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game for smartphones and tablets. Gamevil plans to release the...
Games software/hardware revenue to top $150 billion in 2017
Games software and hardware combined are set to drive more than $150 billion revenue for the first time ever in 2017, with software taking...
Marvel: Future Fight just got a slew of Spider-Man: Homecoming content
Marvel and Netmarble‘s hit mobile game, Future Fight, is celebrating the release of the superhero factory’s latest movie, Spider-Man: Homecoming. This bit of cross-promotion...
South Korea’s Lineage2: Revolution is now a No. 1 hit across Asia
The mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing game Lineage2: Revolution expanded to 11 other Asian countries last week on June 14, and it’s been top...
Kabam’s leaders offer mobile gaming lessons and a bittersweet goodbye
Kabam was one of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories of modern gaming. Founded in 2008 by former University of California at Berkeley students, it...
The DeanBeat: What’s behind this week’s big investments in games
Sometimes the game industry seems small and quiet compared to a “hot” industry like artificial intelligence. Then we get a week like this one,...
Netmarble IPO: What it says about the future of mobile gaming
Netmarble‘s $2.3 billion initial public offering is happening, and it values the company at $11 billion. It has made a billionaire out of founder...
How Jam City CEO Chris DeWolfe sees the freakin’ mobile game world
Chris DeWolfe did OK as a founder of MySpace. But it didn’t turn out to be Facebook. But he can’t complain. DeWolfe is now...
Netmarble Games raises $2.3 billion in South Korea’s second-biggest IPO
Netmarble Games, South Korea's largest mobile games maker, has raised $2.3 billion in the country's second-biggest share sale, just weeks after one of its domestic-only titles sold so well it was named the world's best-selling mobile game.